Continuing the discussion from Fateful minutes when history could have taken another course often happen in meetings:
Apropos movies: there are surely a number of meeting movies. A classic is 12 Angry Men:
In an international research project with 7 teams from 6 countries we used an extract from that movie to test our coding scheme for our comparative participant observation of meetings.
There is also a 1997 remake of the movie but I never watched it. It can hardly be better than the original.
While working on my book I studiously avoided rewatching this for fear of mistaking the fictionalized version for the real thing.
A nonfiction option is About Mr. Sam, by the Canadian National Film Board. @f.cooren and others have published extensively about the meetings depicted herein and it is quite useful to use as an illustration in class.
In fact, I believe it illustrates some key meeting types such as ābrainstormingā and "strategic planning - and illustrates a SWOT analysis in part ā even before these terms were invented.
After Mr. Sam